Summer is usually a quiet time for television, but this year the schedules
have been particularly barren as the World Cup, the Commonwealth Games and
the European Athletics Championships have dominated whole channels for days,
even weeks, at a time. With the exception of The Honourable Woman,
non-sports fans have been left tearing their hair out in frustration as
quality drama has been banished from their televisions.

Yet just as falling leaves signal the end of summer, so the onset of autumn
signals the start of the replenishing of the TV schedules and the drama
slate looks particularly strong this

Nature Nuts with Julian ClaryITV, 7pm
“I haven’t been this excited since I got stuck in a lift with the England rugby team,” says Julian Clary at the outset of this entertaining new three-part series in which the camp comedian travels around Britain meeting some of the country’s most fanatical nature enthusiasts